Andrew Card watched with a sinking feeling: “I said to myself, ‘They don’t know what they’re doing. They have no process. And they don’t have discipline. You must taste your words before you spit them out!’” Panetta thought the Trump presidency’s first forty-eight hours spoke volumes. “When the staff is spending half of its time defending the lies the president makes,” Clinton’s ex-chief told me, “and digging that hole even deeper, then you know that it’s a prescription not just for chaos but for a failed presidency.”
